A HIGH-ACHIEVING Oxford student who devoted much of her time to defending the rights of sexual minorities – and rape victims - has dramatically quit after admitting to having sex with another woman that “was not consensual”.

Annie Teriba, a gay rights campaigner at the distinguished intuition, made the confession in a Facebook post, which has since been deleted.

In it, she wrote: “I had sex with someone. The other party later informed me that the sex was not consensual. I failed to properly establish consent before every act. I apologise sincerely and profoundly for my actions.”

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The 20-year-old, who is in her third-year as a history and politics student at Oxford’s Wadham College, added: “I should have taken sufficient steps to ensure that everything I did was consensual.

“I should have been more attentive to the person’s body language.

“In failing to clarify that the person consented to our entire encounter, I have caused serious irreparable harm.”

She also revealed that a similar incident happened under the influence of alcohol in her first year of university, when she “touched somebody in a sexual manner without their consent”.

Ms Teriba, who acknowledged she needed help to manage her drinking, said she was “deeply sorry for the hurt I caused”.

But her comments have been attacked as “rape apologism” by equality campaigners.

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In a stinging retort from Oxford University’s women’s group, WomCam, a post on their Facebook read: “Rape apologism manifests in infinite forms: we define it as any discourse that refers to sexual assault as anything other than what it is — unacceptable and appalling abuse.”

Lucy Delaney, Oxford University Student Union’s vice-president for women, added: “In a society which silences survivors and which tolerates rape apologism it is essential that liberation spaces do not harbour or protect abusers, otherwise they are no better than the institutions which perpetuate oppression.”